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Do I like arts and crafts? Is Donald Trump an inflated buffoon? I love arts and crafts and we had tons of pine cones where I grew up. They are great for centre pieces and even for the bodies of Christmas favs like Santa or elves or snowmen. I have the a snowman I made where I used a small pine cone for the body and an acorn for the head. Take a piece of paper and cut out a small rectangle that you make a top hat from and paint it black and place on top of the acorn. Paint the bottom part of the acorn white and also a the pine cone. I can't recall what I used for the nose, but it is glued on and painted orange. I added glitter because glitter must always be used:) I took black paint and painted on the face. My face always looked evil looking for some reason....

Sounds like fun! My daughter loves collecting pine cones wherever she finds them, but I didn't know you had to bake them before decorating. Great tip. They definitely look nice spraypainted, we had some like that for our Christmas tree growing up.

It's been forever since I've been crafty. I know that sounds crazy with home schooling kids, but they're all to that stage where art means pencil and paper, or paint, or oil pastels. Maybe I need to break down and be a kid again and do something like this.

Sounds fun. Used to be arts and crafty when I was younger like making dolls out of traditional wood clothespin. They were already shaped like people. My son's would love doing this but my fear is how long it'll take before it'd turn into a pinecone-glue-paint-glitter war.

My parents still have some simple pinecone ornament I made in some dayare when I must've been about three. It just has some colored plastic balls glued on it. The local Orthodox dayschool has done some pinecone crafts too, though obviously not Christmas ornaments! Some of the kids at that school refuse to even say the word Christmas, but use insulting euphemisms like Krismach.

I love this idea, Chrys! I have a bowl of pine cones I collected last spring on the beach. I know, strange they would be on the beach but it's a very wild and untouched part of the coast. I love the idea of glitter and cinnamon to brighten the tree and add a christmasey scent. I also love that you're thinking of the upcoming season so soon.

I love arts and crafts. I used to do painting (well try to at least) and knitting, but I gave it all up when we moved on our sailboat. Not enough room for all of the supplies and the weather way too hot for knitted items :-( Hope you're feeling better.

I haven't decorated for Halloween yet! But I do already have a pine cone collection going on and decorating them sounds much better than allowing them to collect dust in a bowl ;-) Feel better soon, dear Chrys.

LOL! If I'm better, I usually decorate for Halloween on the first day of Autumn. But pine cones are great for this season, too. You just might need to change the colors for the spray paint and glitter. :D